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 · Janet Malcolm’s fascinating book first appeared some twenty years ago, when it was immediately recognized as a rare and remarkable work of nonfiction. A story of infatuation and disappointment, betrayal and revenge, In the Freud Archives is essentially a comedy. But the powerful presence of Freud himself and the harsh bracing air of his ideas about unconscious life hover over the . What Ms. Malcolm has done is create an immensely readable account of her encounter with Jeffrey Masson, a self-absorbed, very troubled man, who managed to con his way into the good graces of Kurt Eissler, the founder and caretaker of the Freud Archives, as well as Anna Freud, the great man's daughter. Janet Malcolm's writing is so absorbing that the book reads like a thriller/5(40). In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, ,


After reading Two Lives by Janet Malcolm, you may recall that I went on a Malcolm buying bltadwin.ru of her books arrived more or less at once, none of them matching remaining A Century of Books years, but I allowed myself to cheat on ACOB with In the Freud Archives from Sadly my edition is not the lovely NYRB Classics edition pictured, but it's much nicer than mine. Buy Janet Malcolm's In The Freud Archives direct from NYRB Classics here. my new - and imo best - book hip-hop-o-crit available now. sad prose book the pleasure of regret from Broken Sleep Books. Humour 'n' Full Frontal Nudes in Because Earth Is Flat (with Sean Preston). So I went on a minor Malcolm binge — although "binge" is not nearly the right word for Malcolm: it was more like a rigorous and salutary diet. So I read Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession and In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer, and felt much the better for it.


looks into the practices of journalism, and "Freud Archives" looks into psychoanalysis, but both have to do with the process of extracting and interpreting information (which Malcolm herself is doing) and the human emotions (and lawsuits) that emerge in this process. Janet Malcolm's fascinating book first appeared some twenty years ago, when it was immediately recognized as a rare and remarkable work of nonfiction. A story of infatuation and disappointment, betrayal and revenge, In the Freud Archives is essentially a comedy. But the powerful presence of Freud himself and the harsh bracing air of his ideas about unconscious life hover over the narrative and give it a tragic dimension. Janet Malcolm’s fascinating book first appeared some twenty years ago, when it was immediately recognized as a rare and remarkable work of nonfiction. A story of infatuation and disappointment, betrayal and revenge, In the Freud Archives is essentially a comedy. But the powerful presence of Freud himself and the harsh bracing air of his ideas about unconscious life hover over the narrative and give it a tragic dimension.

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